Barnboken - Journal of Children's Literature Researchhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr
<em>Barnboken</em> was moved to <a href="http://www.barnboken.net/index.php/clr" target="_blank"><em>The Swedish Institute for Children's Books</em></a> in 2014. All articles published in the journal are <a href="/index.php/clr/issue/archive" target="_blank">archived</a> and fully searchable and authors can continue to follow their articles’ statistics as before.'en-USAuthors contributing to <em>Barnboken – tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research</em> agree to publish their articles under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported</a>, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear<br /><br /> Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Co-Action Publishing. However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to the Publisher.Asa.Warnqvist@sbi.kb.se (Åsa Warnqvist)support@co-action.net (Co-Action Publishing)Thu, 02 May 2013 07:08:06 -0700OJS 2.4.5.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Animals and the unspoken: intertwined lives in Martha Sandwall-Bergström’s Kulla-Gulla serieshttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/23361
<p>This article discusses aspects of the human-animal relationships in Martha Sandwall-Bergström’s Kulla-Gulla series, using a theoretical framework consisting of ecofeminism and literary animal studies. Ecofeminist scholars demonstrate how the problematic of gender and nature are linked, and this article focuses on how Gulla’s relationship with some significant animals enables her to envision a social ideal that undermines the patriarchal power structures that are dominant in her society. The worldview that emerges resists anthropocentric normativity by suggesting a more inclusive, biocentric utopia where the boundaries between nature, humans and non-human animals become fluid. Reading the Kulla-Gulla books from a perspective that is attentive to the presence of animals reveals the extent of the interconnectedness of the human and non-human spheres of life. The narrative attributes agency to a number of animals, which allows them to become a vital part of the social fabric of the novels. Without being reduced to metaphorical devices, they speak up and their voices are heard by some of the human characters. Their status as agents allows them to mediate social changes in a society that is not presented as exclusively human. In the literary universe of Kulla-Gulla, where social hierarchies and gender patterns appear to be firmly established, some characters, both animal and human, are able to destabilize and subvert these patterns with their border-crossing qualities. Their voices and actions express what the human characters are not able to, and by doing so, they undermine strict humanist dualisms.</p><p>Keywords: Martha Sandwall-Bergström, ecofeminism, literary animal studies</p><p>(Published: 11 December 2013)</p><p> Citation: Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.23361</p>Kelly Hübbenhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/23361Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:48:20 -0800Urbana rum. En analys av Majkens vuxenblivande i Martha Sandwall-Bergströms romantrilogi om familjen Oskarssonhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/23344
<p>‘‘Urban space: An examination of the coming of age of Majken in Martha Sandwall-Bergström’s novel trilogy about the Oskarsson family.’’ In this article I examine the ways in which Martha Sandwall-Bergström uses urban places and milieus to depict the coming of age of the protagonist Majken in<em> Aldrig en lugn stund hos Oskarssons</em> (1952), <em>Allt händer hos Oskarssons</em> (1953) and Majken Stolt, född Oskarsson (1954). With support from Henri Lefebvres concept of social space, I argue that Sandwall-Bergström employs the social spaces of the city to depict Majken’s development.</p><p>In her search for a new identity Majken moves trough a variety of social spaces, typical for a big city of the 1950’s. My point is that the actual searching takes place in the public spaces of the inner city, on streets, in shopping malls and nightspots. This can be read as a period of development and freedom before Majken has to adjust herself to a more conventional way of life. The trilogy describes a circular movement from one home to another but at the same time also a social journey. Repeatedly Sandwall-Bergström contrasts the overcrowded and dirty working class apartment of Majken’s childhood with the bright and clean spaces of urban modernity.</p><p>Keywords: Martha Sandwall-Bergström, identity construction, urban space, social space, young adult literature</p><p>(Published: 11 December 2013)</p><p>Citation: Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.23344</p>Lydia Wistisenhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/23344Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:47:47 -0800Att skilja äkta kärlek från falsk. Manliga och omanliga kroppar i Martha Sandwall-Bergströms Kulla-Gullaseriehttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/23343
<p>‘‘To distinguish true from false love: Manly and unmanly bodies in Martha Sandwall-Bergström’s <em>Kulla-Gulla</em> series.’’ The protagonist Gulla in Martha Sandwall-Bergström’s (1913-2000) <em>Kulla-Gulla</em> series (1945-51) encounters ’’true’’ and ’’false’’ love through two men, Tomas Tomasson and Ivan Malma. The hypothesis of this article is that true love is placed in a manly body and false love in an unmanly body. Tomas’ and Ivan’s manliness and unmanliness are constructed through characteristics which are marked by different power categories, such as gender, age, class, ‘‘race’’ and functionality. Therefore an intersectional perspective is used. I find that Tomas and Ivan have similar social positions except for their different classes. Tomas’ body is portrayed as manly, mobile and warm, whereas Ivan’s body is characterized as unmanly, immobile and cold. Tomas evokes love in Gulla, whereas Ivan arouses lust as well as ambivalence. Tomas’ manly body functions as a signal for true love and guides the reader as well as Gulla in distinguishing his true from Ivan’s false love. When Gulla chooses Tomas, she is defined as an adult.</p><p>Keywords: Martha Sandwall-Bergström, girls’ books, love, masculinity, intersectionality</p><p>(Published: 11 December 2013)</p><p>Citation: Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.23343</p>Hilda Jakobssonhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/23343Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:46:45 -0800Dagens Rødhette i en flerkulturell kontekst – mulighet for en ny identitet?http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21830
<p>The starting point for this article is the tendency in recent Norwegian children’s and Ya fiction to thematize cultural encounters in an increasingly multicultural and globalized world. The picturebook <em>Little Miss Eye Flap </em>(<em>Skylappjenta</em>, 2009) written by the Pakistani-Norwegian author and actor Iram Haq and illustrated by Endre Skandfer, presents a modern version of traditional folktales such as <em>Little Red Riding Hood </em>and <em>Rapunzel</em>. However, the traditional structure of home – away – home gives particular emphasis to the phase of homelessness, not providing any safe return to harmony. This condition of liminal space between cultures is discussed in light of the concepts of reflexive identity (Anthony Giddens), cultural identity (Stuart Hall) and hybridity (Homi K. Bhabha). Written by an author who herself comes from a multicultural background, and who presents the book as partly autobiographical, <em>Little Miss Eye Flap</em> offers a double perspective on questions of cultural identity, including critical views on Norwegian as well as Pakistani tradition. The book ends by showing Miss Eyeflaps in a big open space, where it is more certain what she leaves behind than what the future will bring. The open ending and the focalization of the girl with the multicultural background opens up to a discursive space where new hybrid identities may be explored.</p><p>Keywords: picturebooks, cultural identity, hybridity, folktale, intertextuality, Little Red Riding Hood.</p><p>Nøkkelord: bildebøker, kulturell identitet, hybriditet, eventyr, intertekstualitet, Rødhette</p><p>(Published: 6 September 2013)</p><p>Citation: Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. <strong>36</strong>, 2013 <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.21830" target="_self">http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.21830</a></p>Hanne Kiil, Elise Seip Tønnessenhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21830Fri, 06 Sep 2013 03:32:32 -0700Mobile characters, mobile texts: homelessness and intertextuality in contemporary texts for young peoplehttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21583
<p>Since the 1990s, narratives about homelessness for and about young people have proliferated around the world. A cluster of thematic elements shared by many of these narratives of the age of globalization points to the deep anxiety that is being expressed about a social, economic, and cultural system under stress or struggling to find a new formation. More surprisingly, many of the narratives also use canonical cultural texts extensively as intertexts. This article considers three novels from three different national traditions to address the work of intertextuality in narratives about homelessness: <em>Skellig</em> by UK author David Almond, which was published in 1998; <em>Chronicler of the Winds</em> by Swedish author Henning Mankell, which was first published in 1988 in Swedish as<em> Comédia Infantil</em> and published in an English translation in 2006; and <em>Stained Glass</em> by Canadian author Michael Bedard, which was published in 2002. Using Julia Kristeva’s definition of intertextuality as the ‘‘transposition of one (or several) sign systems into another,’’ I propose that all intertexts can be thought of as metaphoric texts, in the precise sense that they carry one text into another. In the narratives under discussion in this article, the idea of homelessness is in perpetual motion between texts and intertexts, ground and figure, the literal and the symbolic. What the child characters and the readers who take up the position offered to implied readers are asked to do, I argue, is to put on a way of seeing that does not settle, a way of being that strains forward toward the new.</p><p>Keywords: homelessness, metaphor, young people’s narratives, intertextuality, transposition, globalization, Julia Kristeva, street kids, uncanny, home</p><p>(Published: 19 June 2013)</p><p>Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. <strong>36</strong>, 2013 <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.21583" target="_self">http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.21583</a></p>Mavis Reimerhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21583Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:55:34 -0700Nordisk barnelitteratur&nbsp; ̶ &nbsp;et nytt kunstforskningsspørsmål?http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21585
<p>Note: This article is being published simultaneously in <em>Nordic ChildLit Aesthetics/Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift</em> and <em>Barnboken – tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research</em>.</p>Kristin Ørjasæter, Nina Christensen, Åsa Warnqvisthttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21585Thu, 30 May 2013 01:24:36 -0700‘‘No place like home’’: the facts and figures of homelessness in contemporary texts for young peoplehttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21586
<p>Note: This article is being published simultaneously in <em>Nordic ChildLit Aesthetics/Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift</em> and <em>Barnboken – tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research</em>.</p>Mavis Reimerhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21586Thu, 30 May 2013 01:23:40 -0700<em>Keywords for Children’s Literature</em>: mapping the critical momenthttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21587
<p>Note: This article is being published simultaneously in <em>Nordic ChildLit Aesthetics/Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift</em> and <em>Barnboken – tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research</em>.</p>Philip Nel, Lissa Paulhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21587Thu, 30 May 2013 01:22:16 -0700Primater emellan. En läsning av Henry Drummonds berättelse ’’Apan som ingen kunde döda’’http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20763
<p>‘‘The anthropocentric primate. A species discursive reading of the story ‘The monkey that would not kill.’’’ In children’s literature nonhuman primates are often represented either as ferocious beasts or as curios and charmful vicarious children. In this article I demonstrate how these different constructions interestingly coexist in the popular story ‘‘<em>The monkey that would not kill</em>’’, written by the Scottish evangelist and professor of the natural sciences Henry Drummond in 1891. My study anchors the figuration of the monstrous ape historically in a Christian discourse and the figuration of the childlike ape in a zoological discourse, and link them to the literary genres of horror and comedy, respectively. Both of the figurations are anthropocentric in their reductive ways of representing the ape as strange enemy or subordinate ‘‘friend’’: they confirm the hierarchic dualism between man and ape. My reading also points out the excessive passion that characterizes the meeting between the species in the story, as a kind of leakage from the dualism. In light of Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the ‘‘anthropological machine’’, I conclude the article reflecting on the human shepherd’s energetic attempts to kill the animal not only as an act of domination, but also as bearing witness to the obsession with ‘‘experimenting’’ with other primates, in order to consolidate a human species identity.</p><p>Keywords: Human-animal studies, children’s literature, apes, stranger fetischism, animal ethics, Henry Drummond, carnophallogocentrism</p><p>Nyckelord: human-animal studies, barnlitteratur, apor, främlingsfetischism, djuretik, Henry Drummond, carnofallogocentrism</p><p>(Published: 14 May 2013)</p><p>Citation: Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36, 2013 <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.20763" target="_self">http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.20763</a></p>Amelie Björckhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20763Tue, 14 May 2013 02:11:49 -0700Beckett, Sandra L.: <em>Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre for All Ages</em>. New York & London: Routledge, 2012. 398 s. ISBN 978-0-415-87230-0http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/22663
<p>--</p><p>Published: 20 November 2013</p>Mia Österlundhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/22663Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:18:50 -0800<em>Till en evakuerad igelkott. Celebrating a Displaced Hedgehog. Festskrift till Maria Nikolajeva.</em> Red. Maria Lassén-Seger & Mia Österlund. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet 117. Stockholm: Makadam 2012. 272 s. ISBN 978-91-7061-112-4http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/22631
<p>--</p><p>Published: 24 September 2013</p>Björn Sundmarkhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/22631Tue, 24 Sep 2013 01:27:38 -0700Bengtsson, Lars: <em>Bildbibliografi. Astrid Lindgrens skrifter 1921-2010</em>. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet 118. Lidingö: Salikon förlag 2012. 384 s. ISBN 978-91-979638-3-1http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21842
<p>--</p><p>Published: 6 September 2013</p>Helene Ehrianderhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21842Fri, 06 Sep 2013 03:35:42 -0700<em>The Nation in Children’s Literature: Nations of Childhood</em>. Red. Björn Sundmark och Christoper (Kit) Kelen. New York, London: Routledge, 2013. ISBN13: 978-0-415-62479-4.http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21829
<p>--</p><p>Published: 6 September 2013</p>Pia Ahlbäckhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21829Fri, 06 Sep 2013 03:24:02 -0700Kärrholm, Sara & Tenngart, Paul (red.), <em>Barnlitteraturens värden och värderingar</em>. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2012. 346 s. ISBN 9789144086675http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21333
<p>--</p><p>Published: 18 June 2013</p>Lena Kårelandhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21333Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:23:24 -0700Carroll, Jane Suzanne: <em>Landscape in Children’s Literature</em>. New York & London: Routledge, 2012. 242 s. ISBN 978-0- 415-80814-9http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21331
<p>--</p><p>Published: 14 June 2013</p>Björn Sundmarkhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21331Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:57:38 -0700Christensen, Nina: <em>Videbegær. Oplysning, børnelitteratur, dannelse</em>. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2012. 260 s. ISBN 978-87-7124-077-1http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21212
<p>--</p><p>Published: 22 May 2013</p>Tilda Maria Forseliushttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21212Wed, 22 May 2013 03:45:35 -0700Salisbury, Martin & Styles, Morag: <em>Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling</em>. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2012. 192 s. ISBN 978-1-856-69738-5http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21332
<p>--</p><p>Published: 21 May 2013</p>Maria Lassén-Segerhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/21332Tue, 21 May 2013 02:26:08 -0700Paulin, Lotta: <em>Den didaktiska fiktionen. Konstruktion av förebilder ur ett barn- och ungdomslitterärt perspektiv 1400-1750</em>, Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2012 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet nr 116, Stockholm Studies in History of Literature nr 54). Diss. Stockholm. ISBN: 978-91-86071-87-5http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20657
<p>--</p><p>Published: 7 May 2013</p>Thomas Småberghttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20657Tue, 07 May 2013 00:26:01 -0700Rountree, Wendy: <em>The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature</em>. New York: Peter Land, 2011. ISBN 978-1-43310574-6http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20649
<p>--</p><p>Published: 7 May 2013</p>Magnus Öhrnhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20649Tue, 07 May 2013 00:19:49 -0700<em>Emergent Literacy: Children’s Books from 0 to 3</em> edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 978-9027218087http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20659
<p>--</p><p>Published: 7 May 2013</p>A. Robin Hoffmanhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20659Tue, 07 May 2013 00:14:58 -0700Pugh, Tison: <em>Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature</em>. New York & London: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0415886338http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20658
<p>--</p><p>Published: 2 May 2013</p>Mia Österlundhttp://journals.co-action.net/index.php/clr/article/view/20658Thu, 02 May 2013 07:07:56 -0700